Chapter 476 Puppy and Kitten

"Actually, I was planning to just come here and play when we had dinner together yesterday."

Tired of playing games, Ying Chanxi leaned on Li Luo's arms to rest, and heard Li Luo holding her little hand and playing with it while talking in her ear.

"But after thinking about it, it's better to bring you here alone. We can talk about the plan of bringing more people later."

"Yeah." Ying Chanxi nodded gently in his arms, closing her eyes and enjoying the peace of the moment. No matter what Li Luo said, she felt it was right.

Of course, if Li Luo had really brought them all to the Golden Lake to play yesterday, Ying Chanxi would have been very happy too.

After all, as long as Li Luo is around, other things don't matter so much.

It was just the experience of today's private date that made her feel even more surprised and happy.

They had lunch early and finished it at around eleven o'clock. They played upstairs for almost two hours. Li Luo finally received a message from the owner of the handmade experience center, reminding him that the dough for the morning had been baked.

So Li Luo patted Ying Chanxi's head and whispered in her ear: "It's time to set off. The cups over there have been fired, and we still have to paint them."

"Yeah." Although it was quite comfortable lying here, Ying Chanxi still stood up from Li Luo's arms obediently and put her little hand into his palm.

The two of them went all the way back to the first floor, separated again at the entrance to the men's and women's bathing areas, and returned to the changing area to change into their clothes.

Li Luo changed his clothes first and came out. After Ying Chanxi came out, he took the card from her and handed it to the front desk to pay the bill.

The basic bath fee for two people was not expensive, but we ordered some dishes in the restaurant and the final bill was seven or eight hundred yuan.

It is certainly not expensive for Li Luo, but it is very expensive for ordinary high school students. It is estimated that few high school students will come to this place to play.

The two people left the Golden Lake and spent a few minutes returning to the handmade experience hall in the alley.

The proprietress had been waiting here for a long time. She greeted the two of them with a smile and took them to sit at another wooden table.

There were two clay cups on the table, which looked like they had been fired.

After Ying Chanxi sat down at the table, he politely asked if he could touch it. After receiving an affirmative answer, he carefully reached out and stroked the cup.

Different from the sticky feeling before, the blank in front of me still feels rough, slightly grainy and not smooth, but it no longer has the previous characteristic of being able to be kneaded at will.

"After the blank is fired, we can color it with glaze." The proprietress clapped her hands, motioned for the two to look over, and then pointed to the rows of paint buckets on the shelves by the wall.

"I usually paint the base color on the cup first, and then use a thinner pen to outline the pattern."

"So you can choose the base color of the cup first, dye it and set it aside to dry."

"Then try out the pattern you want to draw on paper first, and after the base color of the cup is initially dry, draw the pattern you want on it."

"After completing these two steps, the cup is fired once more to allow the glaze to adhere thoroughly, and the mug is ready."

Li Luo listened quietly and compared it with his experience in his previous life. He found that although this store is still very small, it provides a full range of services.

I guess it has something to do with the small number of customers.

After all, if something like firing a cup requires two firings, many customers don’t have the time to wait.

Therefore, the store usually directly provides the blanks that have been fired once and gives them to the customers to color.

The experience may only take one or two hours.

It would not be like it is now, where the proprietress only serves the two of them throughout the day.

Ying Chanxi was quite interested in coloring. She stood up and walked around in front of the paint bucket, and asked the proprietress to let her see what the color effect of the finished product would be.

Finally, I made my choice and picked up a white and black paint bucket from the shelf.

"Just these two?" Li Luo asked.

"Yeah, the cup you made is white." Ying Chanxi said, "The one I made is black."

"I didn't expect you liked black?"

"What are you thinking about?" Ying Chanxi rolled her eyes at him. "Of course the cup you made is for me. I made it for you, so you use the black one."

"…I was thinking about it wrongly."

Of course the lady boss knew that the two wanted to make a pair of couple cups, but she didn’t expect them to choose a black and white color combination.

"Why don't you choose a color combination like red and blue?" the proprietress asked curiously.

"We already have a lot of red and blue ones at home." Ying Chanxi obviously thought of something and shook his head repeatedly, wanting to make a distinction.

But the proprietress thought that they had bought a lot of red and blue couple items before, so she didn't think much about it and just nodded with a smile.

"Then it's quite simple to paint the cup. Use this tool to hold the cup and slowly put it into the paint bucket to dye it. After making sure it's all dyed, take it out and place it on the tray over here."

Ying Chanxi and Li Luo sat aside and watched the proprietress take out another unused blank, clamp the rim of the cup with a special thin clip, and slowly put it into the paint bucket. After a while, she took it out.

The operation is indeed much simpler than in the morning.

Ying Chanxi and Li Luo quickly dyed the cups in their hands into black and white base colors, and handed them to the proprietress to put aside for drying.

The two of them sat down at the wooden table, pulled out two sheets of white paper from the side, selected some paints, and picked up the thin paint pens to write and draw on the white paper.

Before Li Luo decided what to draw, he turned his head and glanced at Ying Chanxi. Seeing that she was sketching something very seriously, he went over to take a look out of curiosity.

"Why did you draw a puppy?" Li Luo asked.

"This is you." Ying Chanxi said with a smile, "You are a dog." Li Luo: "...You are insulting me, right?"

"Where am I insulting you? This puppy is so cute." Ying Chanxi snorted.

“Then I’ll draw a dog too.”

"no!"

"Double standards, huh?"

"It just won't work." Ying Chanxi held his hand, then thought for a moment and suggested, "Then why don't you draw a kitten?"

"I'm a dog and you're a cat?"

"Yes."

"Oh, that's fine." Li Luo remembered the pen pal letter that Ying Chanxi wrote to him last time. The little dog and the little cat were quite appropriate for the occasion, so he nodded and agreed, and began to practice the little cat on a white paper.

It was a rare opportunity to play with paints, and the base paint on the cup needed quite some time to dry, so both of them worked hard on painting.

After I finished practicing the kittens and puppies, I drew a bunch of other things.

The boss lady was very pleased with their interaction and simply provided them with a few blanks for free so that they could try their hand at it first, and it didn't matter if they made mistakes in the drawing.

Ying Chanxi held the cup with great interest and began to try to paint, while Li Luo watched from the side.

For him, as long as he successfully draws a satisfactory pattern once, with the memory palace, there will basically be no problem of making mistakes. He feels quite relaxed at the moment.

Accompanying Ying Chanxi to watch her paint on the cup, Li Luo saw her occasionally succeed, occasionally fail, and also saw her serious look, and he thought she was cute.

"Why are you looking at me?" Ying Chanxi felt a little uncomfortable being stared at, and said with a puffed mouth, "I can't draw well if you look at me like this."

"You can't blame me for this." Li Luo said with a smile, "If you keep looking at me, I can also draw well."

"Hmph." Ying Chanxi punched him, then turned around and continued to paint seriously. He finally mastered the skill of painting puppies.

When the base paint on their cups was finally dry and ready for other paint, the proprietress came over with a tray and placed it in front of them.

"This is not an experiment, you have to be careful when drawing." The proprietress smiled, "Of course, there are ways to remedy mistakes, so don't be too nervous."

Li Luo naturally wouldn't be nervous.

He picked up the tray, brought over the white cup he had made, and skillfully painted a little cat on it.

It looks very cute.

Ying Chanxi was much more nervous than Li Luo. He held the tray carefully, thought for a long time, then turned around to look at the countless puppies he had just drawn.

After a while, Ying Chanxi finally mustered up the courage, picked up the paintbrush in his hand, entered the flow state, and immersed himself in painting with a serious look on his face.

Looking at the final yellow puppy, Ying Chanxi finally breathed a sigh of relief and nodded with satisfaction.

However, such a black cup with only a puppy pattern on it feels a bit too monotonous.

So Ying Chanxi turned the cup around again, looked at the empty half, and asked the proprietress, "Can I write here?"

"Of course you can." The lady boss nodded and smiled. "Pay attention to the spacing between the strokes of the font. You can write it a little bigger. This is safer."

"Yeah! I understand." Ying Chanxi nodded, thought about it for a while, took a piece of white paper and wrote a lot before finally deciding what to write.

However, after seeing Li Luo's head approaching, Ying Chanxi quickly put his hand on his head to stop him from peeking: "Hey, don't look at it yet. Are you done with the painting?"

“I’ve already finished it.”

"Then write another blessing. I've already thought of it. Go ahead and write it too."

"Let me see what you wrote."

"I won't show it to you!" Ying Chanxi pushed him away with a whimper, then said to the proprietress, "Can I not show him what I've written? I'll give it to him after it's cooked."

"Of course." The lady boss watched the two people's interesting and cute interaction, and the smile on her face never faded. She nodded repeatedly and agreed, "Give it to me when you finish it. I won't show it to him."

Li Luo looked at Ying Chanxi with a bit of amusement. He didn't expect that she could still be so childish.

So he stopped peeking and returned to the white cup in front of him. After thinking for a while, he picked up the pen and started writing.

"Remember to sign it," the lady boss suggested. "Write the name of the person who made the cup and the date it was made. This will make it more memorable."

Ying Chanxi's eyes lit up. Although she was not a puppy, she still liked the act of marking. She immediately followed the proprietress's advice and planned to add another one.

After both of them finished writing, Ying Chanxi vigilantly blocked Li Luo's sight to prevent him from seeing what he had written.

Li Luo found it a little funny and couldn't help but teasing: "I have to see it."

"Then let's wait until it's finished firing." While Ying Chanxi said this, his eyes were secretly glancing at the cup on Li Luo's side.

Li Luo saw through her thoughts at a glance, and smiled as he covered his eyes with his hands, not letting her see: "What are you looking at?"

"I didn't see anything." Ying Chanxi snorted and turned his head to look away.

The proprietress watched with a smile on her face, and her mouth was filled with the sweetness from the snacks she ate.

It was already past four in the afternoon. The proprietress picked up the tray with two cups and said, "It will take another hour or two to cook. Do you want to take it away immediately after it's done, or come back later to get it?"

(End of this chapter)